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About Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere.
  • Manuel Esteban Paez Terán

    Cop City kills before it opens

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 25, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn’t want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta’s awful Cop City project has even been built.

  • Ukraine's military Commander in Chief, General Valerii Zaluzhny, celebrates the birthday of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera (Photo: Twitter)

    White Lives Matter more in Ukraine

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 4, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state.

  • Brittney Griner and Viktor Boot

    Brittney Griner and the U.S. State

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 14, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Brittney Griner’s ordeal in Russia is over. But she has been secreted away for “reintegration” and the U.S. continues its own brand of international hostage taking.

  • Hakeem Jeffries, left, kneeling with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Mayor Bill DeBlasio to commemorate the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. (Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times)

    Hakeem Jeffries and the railroad workers

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 7, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A new Black “first” came along at the same moment that the Democratic Party showed itself to be a servant of the ruling classes. Hakeem Jeffries is a very willing tool of powerful people. There is no reason to celebrate his ascension to the House Minority Leader position.

  • Anti-bail protest in New York City (Photo: Matthew McDermott, NY Post)

    Politicians make Black people the face of crime

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 2, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Manufactured crime panics are still a successful method of getting votes from white people.

  • President Joe Biden addresses to the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    Biden lies at the United Nations

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 28, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    U.S. presidents routinely violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Yet every year they appear before that body and proclaim American innocence.

  • Brochures with false information were used to entice Venezuelan asylum seekers to Massachusetts (Photo: Lawyers for Civil Rights)

    Asylum, migration and U.S. foreign policy

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 21, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Immigration rules are often determined by U.S. foreign policy. Citizens of nations under U.S. attack, such as Venezuela, are made eligible for asylum. Haitians suffer under U.S. dictates but are deported and returned to the hell that Washington created.

  • Queen Elizabeth II in Barbados on November 1, 1977. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images/Black Agenda Report)

    Decolonizing the mind

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 14, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The word decolonization should not be treated as trendy slang. It describes an important political and psychological process. Media and state attempts at indoctrination show just how important it is.

  • Image: USA Today

    Biden’s studen loan scam

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 31, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve.

  • Nancy Pelosi at Tokyo press conference explaining her "connection" to China (Photo: Issei Kato/Reuters)

    Nancy Pelosi, White Supremacy, and China

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 10, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country and began a chain of events that won’t go well for the U.S.

  • glen portrait

    Glen Ford’s irreplaceable journalism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 27, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    In the best sense of the word a journalist is someone who brings to the public sphere accurate, well sourced information, and rigorous analysis.

  • Juneteenth celebrated in Emancipation Park, Houston, Texas in 1880 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    The problem with Juneteenth

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 15, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Juneteenth was a people’s holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate exploiters and cynical politicians to show pretend concern for Black people. At best Juneteenth provides a history lesson and an opportunity for much needed political education.

  • Senators Chris Murphy and John McCain in Kiev, Ukraine on December 15, 2013 with Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party.

    Mass shootings, Empire, and racist, copaganda dog whistles

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 1, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the world.

  • Barack Obama press conference April 29, 2009.

    Obama and Liberals killed abortion rights

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 11, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    On May 2, 2022, a memo written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico.com. Alito made clear that the court with a 6 to 3 conservative majority intends to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which made abortion legal in the United States.

  • Margaret Kimberley

    Countries struggling against U.S. domination are inevitably turning to China

    Originally published: Friends of Socialist China on March 26, 2022 (more by Friends of Socialist China)

    Greetings everyone. Of course I want to start by thanking Friends of Socialist China for inviting me to participate in this meeting today. When I received the invitation in early February I didn’t know, I don’t think anyone knew, that the world would change irrevocably just a few weeks later.

  • Image: redfish

    In praise of “Whataboutism”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 9, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The word “whataboutism” is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden.

  • Anti-Putin Propaganda

    Ukraine and U.S. war propaganda

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 26, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The corporate media always carry water for the state, and they are never more dangerous than when the nation is on a war footing. Right now the United States government is sending weapons to Ukraine.

  • Biden at Bethel AME Church Wilmington DE Photo credit: Reuters

    On the Biden plantation

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 19, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created to help the unpopular candidate secure an electoral victory. The reality is a litany of lies and certain defeat for democrats at the polls. There is no harm reduction in a system dedicated to neo-liberalism and austerity.

  • Jackson, Mississippi abortion protest - Photo Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

    Democratic Party betrayal, abortion, and the Supreme Court

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 8, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “ What about the Supreme Court?” Those words are used to thwart any discussion which questions support for the Democratic Party.

  • Narratives are Amplified with Badly Photoshopped Falsehoods

    China is not colonizing Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 1, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    International media cannot be trusted to give accurate information. Skepticism is especially warranted when China is the topic and allegations of colonizing Africa make headlines.

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